Cleveland: My history with the Super Bowl

12:21 AM,
Feb. 2, 2014

Written by

Rick Cleveland

This will be the 48th Super Bowl. I've watched all 47, 29 in person, 27 as a working journalist.

People often assume the NFL's showcase game would be the ultimate assignment for a sports scribe. Not so - at least not for this one, mainly because everything about the Super Bowl is so dreadfully overblown, including the Roman numerals. So many hundreds of media are credentialed they wind up being herded like cattle. Give me a good high school game on a Mississippi Friday night.

True story: In Pasadena one year (1993), I wrote my column with broken eyeglasses and blood from my nose dripping down onto my ...